UK Culture-New Words and Phrases 英国文化-新用语

Hello and welcome to Trend UK, your shortcut to popular culture from the British Council. In the next few minutes were going to be talking about new words and phrases. New words enter the English language all the time, in fact English has always been

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CNN 2010-12-17

Dodging fate and a date with the slaughterhouse. From San Antonio, a reluctant bull tops our look Across Country this morning. Check out the showdown. Late last week near a local meat packing company, which is probably the big reason why the bull wou

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This is scientific american 60-secs science. I'm Sophy Bushwick. Got a minute? It takes a white chromosome to make a man, but that does't mean its counterpart, the x-chromosome, plays no part. In fact it has a big role in making sperm. To study x evo

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So, you know, drawing a line through those two dots of experience, came to, this is going to be a whole new world, this was a whole new world of creativity for film artists. So, I started a company with Stan Winston, my good friend Stan Winston, who

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But they never got there. The first disappeared into deep space. Another missed its target when its coordinates were confused. One NASA control center was working in metric, the other in feet and inch

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VideoJug is here to help if geography is getting in the way of you and your loved one. Follow our guide on how to have a long distance relationship, and keep your relationship alive despite where you are in the world. 如果距离妨碍你和恋人爱情

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Time`s venom boils Every breath ticking towards torment This carrier exposes our instability I will battle on I must choose a throne to succeed This domain in wich i leave I`ll battle on to carryout. `til the cycle end its game I see the blood spilli

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However, that is simply not enough. 但是，这完全不够。 And I think what Herbie said-please listen, listen. 我在想Herbie的话，请听一听。 We have to listen to ourselves, first of all. 首先，我们必须聆听我们自己。 If I

TED演讲：不要一悔再悔(6)

Now within that framework, we can obviously experience regret about a lot of different things. 在这个模式下，我们显然常常后悔很多事情。 This session today is about behavioral economics. And most of what we know about regret comes

英语博客(A cup of English):039 Music practice.

Beginners. Are you musical? Which instrument do you play? There are so many to choose from: piano, flute, vioin, guitar, trumpet, drums and percussion instruments. I could go on and on. It can be fun to play an instrument, especially if you practice

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Take the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Spend 20 seconds memorizing that sequence before saying them out loud again. 看看下面的数字：4、8、5、3、9、7、6，将它们大声读出来，然后背过脸去，用20秒来仔细回

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The biggest cities in China are pressure cookers for youth starting out on their careers. 对于那些打算在自己职业生涯大展拳脚的年轻人而言，中国一线城市就好比是 高压锅。 Here are some tips on what to expect if you

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Second Guess Decisions 举棋不定 Few decisions cannot be changed later if needed. Better to take action that wallow in inaction。 决定往往是可以在往后更改的，如果有这个必要的话。所以，与其举棋不定，不如勇往直前

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Doctoral students are often stereotyped as dull bookworms in thick glasses. But recently, a series of online mini-dramas depicting the daily life of PhDs changed peoples mind. 博士生往往被说成是架着厚厚眼镜片的木讷书呆子。但最近

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More than 200 years ago, there was a little boy who learned to play a musical instrument at the age of three. It was called a clavier, which was an old-fashioned stringed instrument that also had a keyboard. By the time he was five, he was composing

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